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Portland General Store Business Cards
Recently we got to do some special letterpress business cards for the marvelous Portland General Store. We have been fans of PGS for quite some time and have been using their products for all of our...
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Letterpress Loves Giclée
One of the limitations of letterpress is that you can only print one color at a time. This means that for each new color, the press must be cleaned, another plate made, the plate for the additional...
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34 Typographic Sins Letterpress Poster
Thou shalt not fail to kern display type. Limited-edition signed letterpress posters expounding the 34 most horrific Typographic Sins known to humankind. Perhaps you need to go see a typographic...
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The Captain’s Wedding Invitations
How are we so lucky to work with so many talented clients? Once again, these beautiful wedding invitations were designed by the client and they did an amazing job. They wanted them printed on a brown...
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Royal Wedding Processional Map
Letterpress & Giclée marry once again for the creation of these wonderful posters designed by the amazing TheHouseThatLarsBuilt! We have worked with Brittany from TheHouseThatLarsBuilt before on...
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Ty & Nicki : A Sundance Wedding
In place of doing long blogposts every once in a blue moon, we’ve opted for the idea of doing many short, portfolio-esque posts (don’t worry, we’ll still throw a few detailed ones in). We wanted to...
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Kerri and Steven: extra-thick paper for an elegant look
One of our favorite things about this job was the details – not only was it impeccably designed, there were lots of fun details like the pictoral representations of the food available at the reception....
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Psst – over here! From the people that brought you the 34 Typographic Sins...
… comes a sneak preview of our exciting new letterpress poster project! We’ll give you a clue: it combines romance and typography, two of the hottest subjects around! (Photo after the jump) It’s...
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Beards: A Blogpost
Beards – love them or hate them, we’ve been seeing quite a bit more of them lately, especially here around Rowley Press. When I was thinking about what to include in this post, I had a vague memory of...
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Do you ever feel like the post is both magical and mysterious? You pay someone some money, hand them a box with an address on it, and it almost always arrives at the destination. But what happens in...
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A Story about Doors and a Woman Named Ann
Just a few of the doors I saw on my stroll thru King's Lynn with Ann, a most remarkable lady In a small town called King’s Lynn on the eastern coast of England, there is a woman named Ann, and a quite...
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Little One Turns One!
We love printing hand lettering, especially when it’s done by the amazing Ashley Coslett (check out her other work at her Esty Shop, Ash and Boot). These invitations to her little one’s first birthday...
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The Bite that Saved Letterpress
This is what letterpress was supposed to look like; a soft kiss of the ink on the page This is the first post in a new series called Letterpress University. The series will cover basics on the history...
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Hailey & Mike: Crimson & Grey
Unusual color schemes are always fun to print, and the vibrant crimson and subtle dove grey really make the contrasting type faces on this invitation pop! We love the way Hailey and Mike’s names are...
View ArticleLetterpress U: Stereotypes and Onomatopoeia
Imagine you’re a printer in the 1800s. You’re about to print a novel by a best-selling author. You’ve painstakingly set all the type by hand, hundreds of thousands of letters, and now you have to...
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Shannon & Daniel: Blind Impressions
There’s something special about every job, and one of our favorite details on this one was the elegant blind impression. A blind impression is when we don’t use any ink on the plate and simply press it...
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Letterpress Design Tip: Outlining Text
One of the most common problems we come across in the Adobe Illustrator files we get from designers is that they haven’t outlined the fonts. That means that, unless we happen to own the font they...
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